WHAT+IS+A+KNOWLEDGE+ISSUE?

= What is a Knowledge Issue? =

Knowledge issues are issues **about** knowledge.
They are: •open-ended questions that admit more than one possible answer •explicitly **about** knowledge in itself and not subject-specific claims •couched in terms of TOK vocabulary and concepts: the areas of knowledge, the ways of knowing and the concepts in the linking questions—belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, explanation, interpretation, intuition, justification, truth, values •precise in terms of the relationships between these concepts

This table from the IBO may help you grasp the progression from a real life situation to the development of a good knowledge issue. help from the IBO: 
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